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rein orchis

DEFINITIONS OF: rein orchis

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n any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip

Synonyms:
rein orchid
Types:
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Habenaria dilatata, bog candles, bog rein orchid
orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
Habenaria elegans, elegant Habenaria
slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers
Habenaria greenei, coastal rein orchid
stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers
Habenaria orbiculata, round-leaved rein orchid
orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States
Alaska rein orchid, Habenaria unalascensis
similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado
Type of:
orchid, orchidaceous plant
any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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